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An Oxford University study has shown a link between video games and improved reading and attention skills.

New research highlights that video games – especially the action packed games – are beneficial to those with learning disabilities such as dyslexia, as it helps to improve sufferers’ reading and attention skills.

While it is well known that dyslexics process low-level visual and auditory stimuli such as video games in a different way to non-dyslexics, the Oxford University study aimed to highlight audiovisual multisensory processes – the processes dyslexics need to succeed in video games.

36 participants were involved in the research – 17 with dyslexia and 19 without – and they were required to press a button each time they heard a sound and/or saw a flash of dim light patterns.

Dyslexics typically find it more difficult to process both reading materials and auditory instructions, and the study showed that in comparison to participants...

A free, open-source font has been created to make digital content easier for people with dyslexia to read.

One of the main symptoms of dyslexia is believing letters are rotating, swapping, or ‘wiggling’ about on the page.

Characters in the new specially designed font are particularly dense at the bottom, adding weight and gravity designed to prevent them from flipping over or swapping around in the minds of dyslexic readers.

The project was originally created by Abelardo Gonzalez, a mobile app designer based in New Hampshire, U.S. He told the BBC that although similar fonts do already exist, they are currently so expensive that no one can afford to use them.

Gonzalez wanted to make his font entirely free and available to everyone across a wide variety of platforms. So, to gain publicity, he featured the font on a free browser he released on Apple’s iOS app store last year, before advertising the browser on a number of...